Month: April 2021
Guild Name: Cypherpunk Guild
Monthly Highlights
Infrastructure
- Paperwork to create a Swiss association ready for lawyers’ review.
Publicity and solicitation
- First CPG Community Call held 9 April, with 20 participants.
- Sponsoring the Porcupine Freedom Festival, probably the world’s largest venue for cryptocurrency usage as normal money.
Assessment and selection
- Met with Nym to discuss collaboration possibilities.
Acceptance
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Awarded $55k in grants to:
- Suterusu Suter Shield, a native smart contract that will provide access to Suterusu’s private-transaction protocol, based on ZK-ConSNARK technology
- AssuredArt, an online store for NFT-based digital art
- Zero Aggression Smart Contract, which will encourage users to commit to honest behavior or suffer a financial penalty
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Decided to invest $100k in the $1.5M seed round of ZKSneak, ZKP-based software for anonymous and private transactions.
Monitoring and support
- ZeroPool: continued providing support. Test launch planned for late May.
Social Media Management and Analytics:
- The Twitter account (@CypherpunkGuild) has 202 followers.
- The Matrix room (#cypherpunkguild:matrix.org) has 52 members.